Shakira is on a professional ‘honeymoon’

Singer Shakira admitted on Wednesday that she is on a “professional honeymoon”, that she is “very much in love” with her job and has a lot more to say, a sentiment backed up by the undeniable success she has achieved with her latest singles.

“There are a lot of things that I want to say, things that need to be tried musically, but the time will come,” admitted the Colombian during this Wednesday’s participation in Billboard’s Latin Music Week held in Miami Beach, South Florida (USA). ).

In what might have been session with greater attendance at this event, Shakira She admitted she was “very inspired, eager”, happy to go into the studio to record, at a time when composing was “cathartic” for her and helped her “get out of the mud”.

“It turned out to be less fragile than I thought music was my tool too survival,” admitted the woman from Barranquilla, clearly alluding to last year’s notorious split from the father of her two children, former Spanish footballer Gerard Piqué, after 11 years of dating.

“I was surprised to be able to make lemonade with the sourest lemon,” said the translator on another occasion, who thanked the support she received from her audience who continued to support her even during her stay in Barcelona, ​​where, she said had “one foot on the brake”.

Proof of this is the incredible success he achieved with “Shakira: Bzrp Music Sessions, vol. 53″the collaboration he concluded with Argentinian DJ Bizarrapo and released in January of this year, which topped Billboard’s Hot Latin Songs chart and broke four Guinness records.

A controversial topic, in which he attacks the former soccer player of FC Barcelona and which reached number two on Billboard’s Global 200 chart, became an anthem of female empowerment and, in this sense, the Colombian woman admitted that she is proud to live in a moment where “being a woman makes sense”. deeper”.

With that song, “they told me to change the lyrics, it can’t come out, and I replied that I’m not a diplomat of the United Nations, I’m a woman, a wounded wolf”, she recalled, commenting that it caused thunderous applause from the audience.

Now singing in Spanish is the coolest

During the conversation he conducted on Miami Beach Faena forum With Billboard’s Spanish director of content, Leila Cobo, the “Hips Don’t Lie” singer reminisced about some of the successes she’s had throughout her career and how difficult it was for a Latina like her to break into American radio.

Now that’s gone, now nobody tells the artist with whom to communicate or work, pointed out the singer, who welcomed the fact that musicians today can have direct contact with the audience, as well as that there is more acceptance of Spanish among Anglo-Saxon listeners.

“Today everything has changed, today singing in Spanish is the coolest thing,” he added.

He understood that it was important the success achieved by the single “Whenever, Wherever”, cut from his fifth studio album, and the first from his English-language discography, “Laundry Service” (2001), which includes quena sounds, a reflection of his passion for Andean music at the time.

As for his current motivation for the profession, he revealed that his trip to Miami, where he reunited with colleagues and friends, was greatly influenced, as opposed to his time in Barcelona, ​​when “a lot of ideas were left in the void.” and unfulfilled plans, as he said.

The Colombian closed today with the final touch of Latin Music Week, a series of talks and panels with artists and music industry leaders to coincide with the Latin Billboard Awards, which will take place tomorrow, Thursday at the Watsco Center in Coral Gables, a city near Miami.

At that awards ceremony, in which with 21 nominations part of the favourites Mexican featherweight Shakira has 12 candidates.

The performer and composer is a favorite in the same way in the upcoming Latin Grammy Awards ceremony, which will take place on November 16 in Seville (Spain), and in which seven nominations will participate.